{"type":"article","show_header_text":true,"header":"ARTICLES ABOUT CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE","query":"(des=\"CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE\") and tom!=\"Caption\" and tom!=\"Correction\" and tom!=\"List\" and tom!=\"Paid Death Notice\" and dsk!=\"Society\"","search_query":"(subject:\"CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE\") AND -type_of_material:\"Caption\" AND -type_of_material:\"Correction\" AND -type_of_material:\"List\" AND -type_of_material:\"Paid Death Notice\" AND -news_desk:\"Society\"","num_search_articles":"10","show_summary":true,"show_byline":true,"show_pub_date":true,"hide_thumbnails":false,"show_kicker":false,"show_title":false,"show_related_topics":true,"show_rad_links":true,"show_subtopics":true,"exclude_topics":"CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE","more_on_header":"MORE ON CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE AND:","alternate_index_subidx":"","show_thumbnails":true}

Some elk in Rocky Mountain National Park will be tested for chronic wasting disease and given birth control starting next month to see how well the two procedures work. Most tests for wasting disease in elk are done only on dead animals. This will be...

October 7, 2006, Saturday

A white-tailed deer recently found to have chronic wasting disease was eaten by as many as 350 people at a sportsmen's dinner last month, a health official said. There were no reports of illness. Ken Fanelli, a spokesman for the Oneida County Health...

April 6, 2005, Wednesday

A case of chronic wasting disease, which affects the brain and nervous system in deer and elk, has been detected for the first time in New York, according to the State Department of Agriculture and Markets.